Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Greenwell, Henry N. January 9, 1826 - May 18, 1891
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist
HENRY N. GREENWELL, Pioneer Agriculturist. To the late Henry N. Greenwell,
founder of the widely known Greenwell family of Kona, Hawaii, that district of
the Territory owes much of its present high agricultural development,
particularly in relation to cattle ranching and the production of coffee.
Born at Lanchester, Durham, England, on Jan. 9, 1826, and educated in the
Durham Grammar School and at Sandhurst, the British military college, Mr.
Greenwell came to Hawaii in the early 50ís. After remaining in Honolulu a few
years he went to the Kona district of Hawaii and purchased ninety acres of
land, which he planted to oranges, an enterprise he abandoned in 1870 when his
fruit crop was badly blighted. Turning to the coffee business, for many years
he bought and marketed the coffee grown in Kona by Hawaiians, and gradually
acquired extensive land holdings, engaging in the cattle and sheep business on
a large scale. For many years, until his death at South Kona on May 18, 1891,
Mr. Greenwell devoted himself to the improvement and development of his
properties and to the advancement of the Kona district as a whole. His
valuable land holdings and other interests are now operated by the H. N.
Greenwell Estate, managed by a son, William H. Greenwell.
Mr. Greenwell married Elizabeth Caroline Hall on April 9, 1868, and they had
six sons and four daughters, W. H. Greenwell, Dora C. (Mrs. Gerald Bryant), A.
L. Greenwell, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard Bryant, deceased), Christina Margaret
(Mrs. J. Natscheff), F. R. Greenwell, W. A. Greenwell, Julian Greenwell, Edith
Amy (Mrs. George Evans) and L. L. Greenwell.
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